How we can use Python Descriptors to create enhanced Django model fields that better encapsulate their functionality. This will help keep our code more modular and reusable and well as cleaner and more maintainable.

While Django Haystack remains the go to recommendation for adding simple search indexing to your Django sites, you can quickly outgrow the simplified "bag of text" data model that haystack attempts to unify the various supported indexing engines. Depending on your use case, you eventually need to customize the tokenizers ...

A ReSTful API is becoming a standard component of any modern web application. The Django Rest Framework is powerful framework for developing ReST endpoints for your Django based project. AngularJS is modern javascript framework for creating complex web applications within the browser. It focuses on strong separation of concerns (MVC ...

A key benefit to using Python and/or Django for your next project, is the wealth of high quality 3rd party libraries that can help accelerate your development. Python has a rich ecosystem of 3rd party libraries including often offical bindings for an external service. This offers you significant tools to building rich, complex systems based on the available open source solutions. Django's popularity and architecture provides the opportuntiy to find many existing solutions to common problems. For education and discussion, I thought it would be helpful to enumerate the many libraries we currently use on [Subblime][subblime] to leverage the power of of the Python/Django ecosystem. A what's in our toolbox sort of post.